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London's Heathrow Airport Sometimes Hosts 'Ghost Flights' With No One on Them



 
 
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Old July 21st 18, 03:49 AM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
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Default London's Heathrow Airport Sometimes Hosts 'Ghost Flights' With No One on Them

https://jalopnik.com/londons-heathro...hts-1827724434

Six times per week, an empty plane used to fly from London’s Heathrow Airport to
Cardiff, Wales. The next day, the plane would make the return trip without a
single passenger. Half As Interesting, the second channel from
Planelopnik-approved Wendover Productions, details why ghost flights like this
sometimes operate from Britain’s biggest airport in his new video.

https://youtu.be/X8XZriAdB1g

Despite being one of the most crowded airports in the world, Heathrow operates
with only two runways. As a result, it’s extremely difficult to get a “slot
pair”—rights for airlines to land and take off at a certain time. Only 650 slot
pairs exist per day, so airlines are prepared to drop massive cash in order to
get prime slot pairs. And they can trade and sell them, too.

In the most extreme instance, Half As Interesting reports that Kenya Airlines
sold a peak-time slot pair—early morning, when overnight flights get in—for a
whopping $75 million to Oman Air. Given that multimillion-dollar sales are
common, it’s unsurprising that airlines are incredibly protective of their
assigned slots.

Should an airline fail to use their slot at least 80 percent of the time,
Heathrow will reassign it to the next company on the waiting list. As the Half
As Interesting video details, this leads to a curious situation wherein airlines
are sometimes incentivized to fly empty planes out of Heathrow.

As they say, use it or lose it.


https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuC...O_EQ2GeFtbM_bw



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Old July 21st 18, 04:52 AM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
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Default London's Heathrow Airport Sometimes Hosts 'Ghost Flights' With No One on Them

"Miloch" wrote in message news

https://jalopnik.com/londons-heathro...hts-1827724434


It's not just planes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KiZGRA_yCE

 




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